Dear Brenda et al, I have seen a d-shaped pillow on ebay so there cannot be that big a gap in the market; however its location is listed as New York so maybe it is the UK market where there is a gap? Here is a link to the listing:
http://tinyurl.com/q7q4cl Rhiannon (Sunning herself in County Meath, Ireland) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brenda Paternoster Sent: 10 May 2009 09:28 To: Alice Howell Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [lace] larger pillows Just yesterday I set up a piece on a 24" octagonal pillow. It's not a particularly big pattern; a piece of torchon I said I'd design for a future YLM pattern book, but that was the pillow available and as I was positioning the pricking I though that I wouldn't be using the back third of the pillow at all. Maybe I'll have a go some time at making a D shaped pillow, it would appear that there's a need and a gap in the market for D shaped flat/cookie lace pillows. Brenda On 9 May 2009, at 21:18, Alice Howell wrote: > I like working on a 20" cookie pillow for smaller projects. I find > that the far 4-5 inches of the pillow are not used much. The 20" > pillow won't fit in a suitcase very well. One day I tried cutting a > slice off the back of a pillow to make the front to back measurement > less than 18" to fit a suitcase better. It worked well. And I found > that I really liked using the pillow. That missing part on the far > side was not missed. > > I'm going to try it on a 24" pillow since I have an extra one on hand. > I'll cut off the far edge so I have 17.5" depth left, but will have > more room on each side than on the 20"pillow. It should hold more > bobbins. > Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: 270.12.24/2108 - Release Date: 05/11/09 05:52:00 - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
